{"id":2841,"date":"2021-03-01T09:29:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T09:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2021-03-04T15:43:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:43:29","slug":"february-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/03\/01\/february-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"February News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">In a month where the government gave us hope of a return to \u201cnormality,\u201d here is a summary of what has been going on in the School of Politics and International Relations\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>Lockdown didn&#8217;t stop our event programmes &#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Public Speaker Programme for 2021 started &#8211; Aimed at discussing issues of the day and illustrating how academia can converse and have an impact on public policies and social problems.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/2818\/the-politics-and-international-relations-public-speaker-programme-returns-for-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Learn more.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Dismantling Racism Within our Reach: an opportunity for considered debate to create a diverse and equitable learning environment. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/03\/03\/dismantling-racism-within-our-reach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\n<p id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">The School in conjunction with the Politics &amp; IR Society announced an Open Forum event to be held on Thursday 18 March. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/2835\/lets-talk-school-to-host-an-open-forum-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Find out more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>We were on Channel 4 News!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/517\/korosteleva-elena\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Elena Korosteleva<\/a>\u00a0was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/MediaCenterPlayer.aspx?u=aHR0cDovL21lZGlhY2VudGVyLnR2ZXllcy5jb20vZG93bmxvYWRnYXRld2F5LmFzcHg%2FVXNlcklEPTE3Nzg4NiZNRElEPTE0NTMzMjQ3Jk1EU2VlZD01Mzg0JlR5cGU9TWVkaWE%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interviewed<\/a> by Jon Snow on the 6pm <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GZsLinjxGS8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Channel 4 News<\/a> to speak about the continued protests in Belarus. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/2828\/prof-elena-korosteleva-interviewed-by-jon-snow-itn-channel-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch here.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Our academics published research&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An article written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/505\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/505\/biegon-rubrick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Rubrick Biegon<\/a> was published on the E-IR open-access website. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/2855\/security-cooperation-as-remote-warfare-the-us-in-the-horn-of-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about Remote Warfare; Interdisciplinary Perspectives.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/brussels\/people\/2608\/casier-tom\">Dr Tom Casier<\/a> reflected on the systemic crisis of the post-Cold War order. At the end of January, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin announced they had agreed on the extension of the New START agreement. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\/2833\/reflecting-on-the-crisis-of-the-post-cold-war-order-new-article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/news\">Keep up to date with the latest news from the School of Politics and International Relations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a month where the government gave us hope of a return to \u201cnormality,\u201d here is a summary of what has been going on in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/03\/01\/february-news-roundup\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":2862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131000,131002,37],"tags":[1066,6598,70,397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2878,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions\/2878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}